On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for writing this. A few questions...
>>
>> Do we need both `issuer` and `key_id`? Shouldn't we use `client_id`
>> instead at least for OAuth?
>
> it is the ID of the key, not the client -- used to rollover keys

I don't think key id is necessary, but adding Hannes since he called
me crazy for saying that at IIW. =)

The average client is going to have very few keys.  Probably just 1.
3 at the outside.

If a server needs to verify, it can literally iterate over all of the
keys associated with the client until it finds the right one.

There is some precedent for this approach:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906305/en-us.

Cheers,
Brian
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